Meet the isti mentors
Dr. Bev Holmes
President & CEO, Michael Smith Health Research BC
Bev is a health research system leader with expertise and experience in and passion for the funding, production and use of research evidence to improve health. She sits on research advisory groups across Canada and internationally, is an associate editor at Implementation Science Communications and participates in the National Alliance of Provincial Health Research Organizations. An adjunct professor at 天美mv天美鈥檚 Faculty of Health Sciences and UBC鈥檚 School of Population and Public Health, Bev is also a Chartered Director (Degroote School of Business, McMaster University). She has held a number of management positions in non-profit agencies.
Bev received her MA and PhD from 天美mv天美鈥檚 School of Communication. She and partner have four children and two grandchildren; they gratefully make their homes on the traditional, unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples, including the territories of the x史m蓹胃kw蓹y虛蓹m (Musqueam), S蓹l虛铆lw蓹ta蕯/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and Skwxw煤7mesh (Squamish) First Nations.